Recently, my private messages have exploded again. A lot of people with ten or twenty thousand in capital ask me: “Why do I always run after a small profit, but stubbornly hold on during big losses?” I shoot back directly: “Can you first kick the habit of staring at the charts every day, and only make two or three trades a month?”

To be honest, three months ago, I was also that kind of “chart sense” trader—checking candlesticks all day, chasing hot spots here and there, thinking I was a trading genius after making three to five hundred, then questioning my life after losing two or three thousand. My account slid all the way down from its peak to just over ten thousand before I finally woke up.

Back then, I set a tough rule for myself: at most two trades per month, and if I didn’t see a textbook-level signal, I wouldn’t touch it no matter what. The result? In three months, I rolled that ten thousand up to seventy-five thousand. Looking back now, if I had understood these few principles earlier, I could have saved at least half a year’s worth of tuition.

**Let’s start with the first: Stop trying to make money on every move**

The biggest problem for beginners is wanting to make money on every fluctuation. They stare at the 15-minute chart, cashing out after a ten-point rise, but unable to cut losses after a twenty-point drop. But the real opportunities—the ones where you can actually make significant gains—are those trend moves that break through key levels.

For example, when a major coin holds above the 60-day moving average and trading volume jumps by more than 30%; or when the weekly chart breaks past a previous high—at these times, market consensus is already forming, win rates can reach 70%, and the profit potential is several times greater than those small fluctuations. That trade I made last month that netted me 2,700U? I waited until a major asset broke above its yearly moving average before entering, and in just eight hours, I caught the entire main surge.

**Second: Use small stop-losses to chase big profits—don’t shoot blindly**

Trading isn’t about who makes the most, but about who survives the longest. My current rule for myself is: for every trade, if I lose more than 5%, I must...